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• Charge: Teen who stabbed student at school says, 'He started it'

  17-10-2017 23:51
  A 17-year-old student at Federal Way High School has been charged as an adult in the Oct. 3 stabbing at the school that sent a 16-year-old into surgery.
  
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• Insurance rates could rise 9 to 27 percent for some ACA customers, Washington state officials say

  17-10-2017 23:42
  Washington state's Office of the Insurance Commissioner is allowing insurers to charge higher rates to some plans in the Washington Health Benefit Exchange in response to President Trump ending subsidies to insurance companies.
  
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• Dear Gym Owners Everywhere: It's Time For These Posters To Come Down

  17-10-2017 23:01 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I've been seeing this guy at the gym since... well, since I first walked into a health club as an adult. Skinned guy, standing erect, holding a barbell, preparing to do a recognizable exercise (curls). The female version is below...
  What on earth is she supposed to be doing? He’s standing erect, she’s... presenting? He’s on his feet, doing a recognizable exercise. She’s on her knees, doing what exactly? His hair is neat, hers is blown back by a fan? And, jud
  
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• Ten Years After The Heroin Diaries, Nikki Sixx is Sober and Sane

  17-10-2017 22:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Few who've read his searing portrait of addiction can believe the notorious rock star is still alive. Neither can he.by John CoyleNikki Sixx's strict diet of booze and heroin has kept him looking young over the years. EARL GIBSON III
  It’s been 10 years since the publication of his best-selling memoir The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star, and a relaxed Nikki Sixx is driving to the Sixx Sense studios in Los Angeles to record his syndicated radio show.
  "We’re
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Shitty Guy, Shitty Finger

  17-10-2017 22:39 via thestranger.com
  
  "Do I need to get over this shit and accept it as part of the deal?"by Dan Savage
  I'm seeing a guy right now that is funny, cute, and seems pretty nice. I don't think we're a good match longterm—he's not sure if he wants kids and I do (and don't have a ton of time), plus we have some potential personality incompatibilities (I'm pretty type A and think his disorganization might bug me if it got more serious; I've learned from past relationships opposites may attract but it's not always grea
  
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• Poster Mystery Revealed! It's People Who Don’t Vote Telling You How To Vote.

  17-10-2017 22:05 via thestranger.com
  
  This poster is 50 percent bullshit.by Rich SmithFalse premise, true conclusion. Some AnarchistsA group of people claiming to be the artists responsible for those weird anti-Jenny Durkan posters I wrote about yesterday have come forward. They identify themselves as "anarchists who do not vote in democratic elections," who do not work for Cary Moon, and who "despise [Durkan] in the depths of our souls." They claim Durkan sent convicted child molester Robert Childs to a family BBQ where some of the
  
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• We Have Trumphoria And a Record-Breaking Stock Market Because No One Was Prosecuted for 2008 Crash

  17-10-2017 21:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Risks and shady bets will go unpunished.by Charles Mudede xijian/gettyimages.com
  Last month, the US economy lost jobs (33,000) for the first time since 2010. Most attributed this loss to the destructive and deadly storms that hit Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico. That explanation, however, failed to clear the ominous cloud that formed over the report. Today, the Dow blasted past 23,000 points for the first time in the history of American capitalism. As Trump proudly tweeted, the stock market has
  
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• Making Sense of the Seattle Times Endorsement of Jon Grant

  17-10-2017 21:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Let's discuss.by Heidi GrooverEndorsed by Socialist Alternative, the Democratic Socialists of America, The Stranger, and...the Seattle Times. courtesy of jon grant
  The moderate-to-Republican Seattle Times Editorial Board has endorsed Jon Grant, a socialist city council candidate aligned with Kshama Sawant who wants to tax big businesses and end sweeps of homeless encampments.
  In line with the board's history of completely dishonest and illogical arguments, the editorial makes no sense.The board
  
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• Conjugal Visit: Riding My Driver

  17-10-2017 20:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Anonymous JOHNNY SAMPSON
  My boss was out of town and the office was dead, so I spent the morning on Scruff. A guy with beautiful eyes wanted me to come fuck him on my lunch break. It said he was 5,000 feet away. He was more like 23 blocks away, with lots of hills between us, so I took a Lyft. The woman driving me had no idea what I was up to. After we were done, I took another Lyft back. The driver was a guy this time, handsome, possibly gay. He asked me how my day was going. He asked me what
  
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• Statewide Earthquake Drill Takes Place Thursday

  17-10-2017 20:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Be prepared for when the fault line cracks...by Katie Herzog Getty Images
  Of all the downsides of living in Seattle (the traffic, the weather, the bagels), perhaps the biggest bummer of all is knowing that someday—any day—the massive faultline underneath us is going to rupture. And when this happens, the earth will sway, buildings will collapse, and a whole lot of us will spend our final moments crushed under the weight of the very possessions we worked so hard to acquire. In the wor
  
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• Oregon cuts 3,800 jobs in September; hospitality hit hard

  17-10-2017 19:56
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon shed jobs for the second month in the row, though its unemployment rate remained essentially unchanged, the state Employment Department said Tuesday. Oregon’s nonfarm payroll employment dropped by 3,800 jobs in September, following a revised loss of 7,000 jobs in August, according to the monthly jobs report. The late-summer slowdown […]
  
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• Meanwhile, in Burien, Driver Reportedly Mowed Down Signs For Liberal Candidates

  17-10-2017 19:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Some of the candidates are running against anti-immigrant sentiments.by Sydney BrownstoneMcNair says the distance between the signs and the street is three to five feet. Andrew McNair
  If you think Seattle has successfully immunized itself against a Trumpian right, look no further than our neighbor to the south, Burien, for an example of what happens to local politics catalyzed by Trump-style rhetoric. I wrote about some of the extremism that had filtered into Burien's hyperlocal brand of nativis
  
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• Submit Your Events Now For The Winter Edition of Seattle Art and Performance

  17-10-2017 19:51 via thestranger.com
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThe submission deadline is Wednesday, November 1.
  It's not yet Halloween, but, believe it or not, winter is coming. That's not all bad news though—it also means a new edition of Seattle Art and Performance will be out on the streets on December 6.
  Which means: If you're an artist, performer, or arts venue and you'd like your events to be included in our comprehensive calendars of Seattle arts events, now's the time to let us know. The winter edition of Seattle
  
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• Washington state sues DeVos for suspending rule intended to keep colleges from offering worthless degrees

  17-10-2017 19:31
  In the suit, state Attorney General Bob Ferguson says the Department of Education’s decision to suspend an Obama-era rule on colleges and trade schools would allow some schools to keep offering worthless degrees.
  
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• Guest Editorial: I Take Care of This City’s Kids. Now Seattle Should Start Taking Better Care of Me.

  17-10-2017 18:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Nannies don't get retirement benefits.by Ty MessiahThe author. Courtesy of Ty Messiah
  I’ve been working as a nanny in Seattle for about two years. I enjoy being a nanny because I enjoy working with children and becoming a part of a family outside of my own. It can be demanding at times, but it’s never boring. Unfortunately, the job doesn’t come with any retirement benefits.But I’m definitely going to need taking care of in retirement, just like everyone else. That’s
  
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• The Morning News: Distracted Drivers Kill, Trump Hates Troops, Local Judge Slaps Down Local Assholes, CHS Makes the Case for Moon

  17-10-2017 16:43 via thestranger.com
  
  Plus: Goodbye Cafe racer and an unfortunate halloween costume.by Dan SavageNo. Stop. What are you doing? Dark Horse / Getty
  PUT THE DAMN PHONE DOWN: The United States is experiencing a "historic spike" in traffic fatalities, Bloomberg reports. "Over the past two years, after decades of declining deaths on the road, U.S. traffic fatalities surged by 14.4 percent. In 2016 alone, more than 100 people died every day in or near vehicles in America, the first time the country has passed that grim toll
  
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• ‘The Big Dark’ is here as first of three storms rolls into PNW on stretch of trans-Pacific moisture

  17-10-2017 16:18
  The National Weather Service said the storms are riding a stretch of trans-Pacific moisture from China to the Pacific Northwest.
  
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• ‘The Big Dark’ is here as first of three storms rolls into Northwest on stretch of trans-Pacific moisture

  17-10-2017 16:18
  The National Weather Service said the storms are riding a stretch of trans-Pacific moisture from China to the Pacific Northwest.
  
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• Court papers: Teen drowned 6-year-old Lynnwood boy

  17-10-2017 16:04
  A 6-year-old Lynnwood boy whose body was found after an overnight search was drowned, court papers say. A 19-year-old from Kerrville, Texas, has been jailed for investigation of first-degree murder in the death of Dayvid Pakko, the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office says.
  
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• Police: Lynnwood 6-year-old drowned in bathtub by visiting relative

  17-10-2017 15:32
  Sheriff’s detectives say the boy’s body was placed in a dumpster just a few yards from the front door of his family’s apartment. No motive for the homicide has been given.
  
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• Body of missing Lynnwood boy, 6, found in dumpster; relative in custody

  17-10-2017 15:32
  A 19-year-old relative was taken into custody in connection with the death. Police said it appeared the boy had been a victim of homicide.
  
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• Body of missing Lynnwood boy, 6, found in dumpster; relative arrested

  17-10-2017 15:32
  A 19-year-old relative was arrested in connection with the death. Police said it appeared the boy had been a victim of homicide.
  
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• Man dies in Everett shooting, robbery, police say

  17-10-2017 15:21
  A man was killed and another man injured in a robbery and shooting in Everett, police said. Early Tuesday morning, officers responded to shots being fired inside an apartment in the 1600 block of 22nd Street and found the two men, according to a news release from the Everett Police Department. One man was dead […]
  
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• Behind the Byline: Meet Education Lab engagement editor Dahlia Bazzaz

  17-10-2017 15:01
  This is the fourth in a series of regular posts introducing you to the journalists who bring you the news.
  
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• Ask the candidates: Seattle mayoral hopefuls Jenny Durkan and Cary Moon want to hear from you

  17-10-2017 15:00
  Have a burning question for Seattle mayoral candidates Jenny Durkan and Cary Moon? Now’s your chance.
  
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• Are you ready for the Big One? Look at what these folks have done — on their own — to prepare

  17-10-2017 15:00
  From a shipping container stocked with supplies to duck-and-cover training for preschools, private citizens are pushing to prepare for an inevitable earthquake in our region. Thursday’s Great ShakeOut drill emphasizes the need to be ready.
  
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• Ophelia batters UK after pummeling Ireland, leaves 3 dead

  17-10-2017 10:42
  LONDON (AP) — Storm Ophelia is battering Scotland and northern England after leaving three people dead and hundreds of thousands without power in Ireland. The former Atlantic hurricane downed trees and power lines, sent waves surging over coastal defenses and disrupted transport again Tuesday, a day after making landfall on Ireland’s south coast with gusts […]
  
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• Parts of unmanned Russian spaceship burn up over Dubai

  17-10-2017 09:08
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Parts of an unmanned Russian cargo spaceship burned across the night sky of the Arabian Peninsula, drawing gasps from Dubai to Riyadh before breaking up in the Earth’s atmosphere and scattering in the Indian Ocean. The fiery end Monday night to parts of Progress MS-07 came as planned after […]
  
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• Light in the sky over UAE likely Russian rocket breaking up

  17-10-2017 09:08
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A light seen in the night sky over the United Arab Emirates likely was a discarded Russian spaceship breaking up after re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere. Those in Abu Dhabi and Dubai shared online videos and pictures of the light seen in the sky Monday night. Aerospace websites and the […]
  
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• Discarded, unmanned Russian spaceship burns up over Dubai

  17-10-2017 09:08
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A discarded Russian cargo spaceship burned across the night sky of the Arabian Peninsula, drawing gasps from Dubai to Riyadh before breaking up in the Earth’s atmosphere and scattering in the Indian Ocean. The fiery end Monday night of the unmanned Progress MS-07 came as planned after it delivered […]
  
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• Cafe Racer Announces They're Closing for Good

  17-10-2017 06:01 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleIt's a bar, a coffeeshop, a restaurant, a music venue, and a neighborhood fixture. caferacerseattle.com
  "It is with great sadness that I have to say this," owner Kurt Geissel says. "Café Racer is closing. The last night will be this Wednesday."The interior. caferacerseattle.com
  Geissel made his comments in a Facebook post earlier today. As you may remember, Cafe Racer was the site of a shooting in 2012 where five people died at the hands of a mentally ill man with
  
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• Lynnwood boy, 6, missing since Monday afternoon

  17-10-2017 05:06
  David Pakko, who is “mildly autistic,” was last seen in the 15700 block of 44th Avenue West in Lynnwood at 2:30 p.m., according to the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.
  
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• Initiative to ban safe-injection sites in King County knocked down by judge

  17-10-2017 04:13
  Initiative 27, scheduled for February’s special election, was struck down because it infringed on the work of public-health authorities, a judge ruled.
  
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• Mother and Son Suspected of Motor Theft Treated for Bullet Wounds After Seattle Police Opened Fire at Fleeing Car in Eastlake

  17-10-2017 03:07 via thestranger.com
  
  They were arrested on vehicle theft charges.by Steven Hsieh SPD
  A suspected driver and passenger of a fleeing vehicle that was shot by Seattle Police officers in Eastlake were both treated for bullet wounds after they were arrested on Friday, according to court and police records. Prosecutors charged both suspects with vehicle theft.Officers from the Seattle Police Department and Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office arrested Joshua Brooks, 20, and Wendy Lee, 46, on suspicion of vehicle theft
  
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• Mother, son accused of being in stolen car fired upon by Seattle police

  17-10-2017 03:01
  Before they were booked into jail Friday, Wendy Lee and her son Joshua Brooks were both treated at a Seattle hospital for injuries they suffered in the Oct. 8 shooting in Seattle’s Eastlake neighborhood.
  
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• Strength in numbers: A mountain of #MeToo

  17-10-2017 02:34
  Women are indicating in huge numbers that they’ve been the victim of sexual harassment or assault with a short status on Facebook or a #MeToo on Twitter. The aim isn’t sympathy, writes Nicole Brodeur; women want the abuse to be acknowledged and to stop.
  
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• Devastated California suburb was exempt from fire rules

  17-10-2017 02:17
  The destruction of Coffey Park wasn’t a mystery to fire scientists. Because it was outside the officially mapped “very severe” hazard zone, more than 5 miles to the east, it was exempt from regulations designed to make buildings fire resistant in high-risk areas.
  
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• Judge Blocks Anti-Safe Consumption Site Measure from February Ballot

  17-10-2017 01:32 via thestranger.com
  
  A win for public health advocates.by Heidi Groover SPENCER PLATT/GETTY
  A ballot measure banning safe consumption sites will not appear on the February ballot.
  King County Superior Court Judge Veronica Galvan ruled today that the initiative exceeds the scope of local initiative authority and cannot go to the ballot. The ruling comes after a group of safe consumption site advocates sued over the ballot measure, arguing that county health policy cannot be determined by public vote.Galvan writes tha
  
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• Chess Champ and Queen of Katwe Lands in Kirkland

  17-10-2017 01:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Carla BellMadina Nalwanga played Phiona Mutesi in the 2016 film Queen of Katwe. Disney
  Phiona Mutesi, a famed Uganadan chess player, was first introduced to the public by Tim Crothers’ 2012 book The Queen of Katwe, which was later adapted into a Disney movie starring Madina Nalwanga as Mutesi and Lupita Nyong'o as her mother. In the story, Mutesi’s family lives in desperate poverty and hopelessness, but her world rapidly changes after she discovers chess. The game became her tool
  
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• The 53 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: October 16-22, 2017

  17-10-2017 01:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffSAM's Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect exhibit, featuring more than 100 works by the quintessential American painter, opens this week.
  Our music critics have already chosen the 28 best concerts this week, but now it's our arts critics' turn to recommend the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genre—from Creepy-Crawly Cocktails to Coriolanus: Fight Like a Bitch, and from Lit Crawl to the second week of TWIST, the Seattle Queer Film
  
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• Judge takes measure blocking drug injection sites off ballot

  17-10-2017 01:18
  King County Superior Court Judge Veronica Alicia-Galvan ruled in favor of the August lawsuit filed by nonprofit Protect Public Health (to which the City of Seattle was later added as a co-plaintiff) that asked for Initiative 27 to be left off the Feb. 13 ballot.
  
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• The 55 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: October 16-22, 2017

  17-10-2017 01:17 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger’s arts critics recommend the best local events.by Stranger Things To Do StaffOur music critics have already chosen the 28 best concerts this week, but now it's our arts critics' turn to recommend the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genre—from Creepy-Crawly Cocktails to Coriolanus: Fight Like a Bitch, and from Lit Crawl to the second week of TWIST, the Seattle Queer Film Festival. See them all below, and find even more events on our
  
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• The 54 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: October 16-22, 2017

  17-10-2017 01:17 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger’s arts critics recommend the best local events.by Stranger Things To Do StaffOur music critics have already chosen the 28 best concerts this week, but now it's our arts critics' turn to recommend the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genre—from Creepy-Crawly Cocktails to Coriolanus: Fight Like a Bitch, and from Lit Crawl to the second week of TWIST, the Seattle Queer Film Festival. See them all below, and find even more events on our
  
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• Family of 4 killed in Port Orchard house fire identified

  17-10-2017 00:59
  PORT ORCHARD  — Authorities say four family members killed in a Port Orchard house fire over the weekend died from smoke inhalation. The Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office on Monday identified the victims as 38-year-old Merle Simpson, his children 2-year-old Madison and 1-year-old Collin, and his 63-year-old mother Vili Simpson. Merle Simpson’s father, Donald Simpson, escaped […]
  
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• With expansion, Washington State Convention Center agrees to provide more than $80 million in public benefits

  17-10-2017 00:54
  The Washington State Convention Center has agreed to provide more than $80 million in public benefits -- including affordable housing, cycling and pedestrian improvements and a study of lidding more of Interstate 5 -- as part of its planned $1.6 billion expansion in downtown Seattle.
  
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• Republican Dino Rossi piles up cash advantage over Democrats to succeed U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert

  17-10-2017 00:54
  The campaign donations came between Sept. 21, when Dino Rossi announced his candidacy at a GOP dinner, and Sept. 30, the close of the third quarter for Federal Election Commission fundraising reports. The FEC reports were a first test of strength in the race that is viewed as crucial for control of the U.S. House in 2018.
  
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• Hunger Strikes "Put a Human Face" on Immigrant Incarceration, US Reps. Smith and Jayapal Say

  17-10-2017 00:31 via thestranger.com
  
  A clear cut case of activism leading to action.by Sydney BrownstoneUS Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal speaking at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project about the legislation she and Rep. Adam Smith have introduced to end mandatory detention and private immigration detention centers.SB
  It's rare that electeds make a direct link between grassroots activism and a policy they're pushing. But today, during a press conference held at the offices of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, US Representat
  
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